PRESS RELEASE
TenForce becomes European reseller of the innovative Clark & Parsia product suite
Washington DC, USA and Brussels, Belgium
December 6, 2009
Clark & Parsia LLC and TenForce announce their collaboration today.
TenForce will act as a reseller of the Clark & Parsia product suite for the European market.
Clark & Parsia is a worldwide leading provider of semantic technology product solutions.
Their OWL 2 reasoner Pellet is one of the key products supporting semantic web infrastructures.
TenForce, as a provider of knowledge management and semantic technology services and related products, has a strong expertise in positioning innovative products in this challenging, demanding but growing European market.
Reasoning is becoming an essential part of semantic technology architectures.
Firmly rooted in the area of semantic web, it’s playing a more prominent role in semantic technology. Reasoners expand what you can know from a model by evaluating the model according to certain rules and the available data, thus deriving all kinds of possible conclusions.
The end result is smarter applications in fewer lines of code, thus reducing overall costs and increasing ROI for complex systems, particularly information integration and decision support.
Kendall Clark, CEO of Clark & Parsia, confirms that he considers “delivering products as an important step in growing our company from an R&D-based firm specialized in semantic web and advanced systems into a global technology sales organization.”
Bastiaan Deblieck, Business Development Manager at TenForce explains that “Pellet is an important component in our enterprise knowledge management architecture that we want to offer to our customers and prospects.
In addition Clark & Parsia has other components and applications that we would like to present to our customers and prospects in Europe. I’m specifically thinking of POPS, the expertise and competency management application developed for NASA.”
Please contact TenForce Europe for more information
TenForce: Bastiaan Deblieck
bastiaan.deblieck@tenforce.com
+32 (0) 16 31 48 60
Clark & Parsia: Kendall Clark
kendall@clarkparsia.com
+1 202 408 8770
PRESS RELEASE
TenForce and Mondeca deliver next generation Taxonomy Management System to Directorate-General for Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities of the European Commission
Flexible and future proof management of the European taxonomy of Skills, Competences and Occupations terminology is one of the cornerstones in the New Skills for New Jobs initiative.
Paris, France and Brussels, Belgium
November 30, 2009
In order to support better matching between the supply and demand of skills and competencies on the European labour market, the European Commission's Directorate-General for Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities will develop a common European taxonomy of Skills, Competencies and Occupations, called ESCO.
The European Commission has selected TenForce and Mondeca as its technology providers. TenForce will act as an integrator of Mondeca’s advanced and solid Intelligent Topic Manager semantic software platform (ITM).
ESCO is the only skills and occupations taxonomy that is translated into 22 languages. The taxonomy contains 6000 skill descriptions (each occupation has been analyzed to establish the skills required in that occupation) and 5000 job titles.
The new system will contain a web-based taxonomy publication system developed by TenForce, and will rely on Mondeca’s ITM Terminology, Thesaurus, Taxonomy, Ontology management solution as its taxonomy edition component.
The taxonomy management system will allow the European Commission and its partners, namely the European Public Employment Services, to offer a more accurate, granular and richer matching of jobseekers to jobs at European level.
“Again our relentless efforts to bring solid & innovative semantic technology to the core of essential solutions has been rewarded,” says Bastiaan Deblieck, TenForce Sales & Marketing Manager.
“This is a tremendous validation of our semantic-based approach to metadata & knowledge management.”
Jean Delahousse, CEO of Mondeca said “This is another confirmation of Mondeca’s position as a leading supplier of multi-lingual semantic-based thesaurus and taxonomy management solutions.”
Mondeca is the software publisher of ITM, Intelligent Topic Manager, an ontology-based management solution.
ITM optimizes rich content organization and access by providing sophisticated support for the management of reference metadata, terminologies, taxonomies, domain-specific master data and knowledge bases.
ITM leverages these reference elements for content indexation and delivery of online navigation tools including taxonomies, indexes, and knowledge base navigation aids.
ITM conforms to several semantic technology and structured vocabulary standards including URI, RDF, OWL, SKOS, BS8723 and ISO 25964.
Mondeca’s solutions are being used in Europe, the USA and Canada for applications including domain-specific intranets, document archiving management, e-commerce web portal solutions, medical terminology management and legal publishing frameworks for clients including AFP, LexisNexis France, Wolters Kluwer Belgium, French government, PSA Peugeot-Citroen, French Ministry of Defense, Thomson Reuters, French National Railway Company (SNCF).
www.mondeca.com
Contact: Jean Delahousse
jean.delahousse@mondeca.com
+ 33 1 44 92 35 00
TenForce is a Belgian software company that has been active in the domain of semantic technology for more than 10 years.
It has a proven track record in taxonomy, thesaurus and meta data management, multi language content management, semantic portals, publication production and knowledge management.
It offers software services (analysis, design, develop, test, project management) and is also the maker of a pragmatic project management product. Customers include, among others,: OPOCE, Wolters Kluwer Belgium, Wolters Kluwer LTRE, Belgacom, Telenet, Roularta, De Persgroep.
www.tenforce.com
Contact: Bastiaan Deblieck
bastiaan.deblieck@tenforce.com
+32 (0) 16 31 48 60
Datanews dedicated some attention to the emerging importance of semantic technologies and turned to Bastiaan Deblieck for more information on the topic.
In the issue of 18 September of this year, an entire dossier in datanews discussed the topic of Semantic Technology.
They turned to Bastiaan Deblieck - business developer at TenForce – for more information.
In the interview Bastiaan stressed that companies worldwide are gradually recognizing the added value of semantic technologies, now that more and more business relevant applications of the technology are entering the market.
By giving some clear examples of how TenForce uses semantic technologies in a business context, Bastiaan elucidates what is often an all too abstract concept to many of us.
Johan De Smedt and Girts Niedra
CTO and business analyst at TenForce respectively ...
... will be presenting papers at the next European Semantic Technology Conference in Vienna (2-3 December 2009).
We are delighted with this opportunity to share our know-how on semantics with a broad and interested public.
Johan will talk about semantic modeling, illustrated by a business case to make all different aspects of the process crystal-clear.
Johan will demonstrate in a practical way and based on a real-life example how business problems can be solved by building a semantic model.
Taking the case of EUROVOC - a thesaurus covering all the fields of activity of the European Union across 25 languages - a working model is built to illustrate how semantic modeling can happen. TenForce developed a portal for this EUROVOC multilingual thesaurus that is maintained by the Thesaurus Management System of Mondeca. The solution is implemented as an extension of the W3C semantic web standard SKOS. SKOS is a common data model for sharing and linking knowledge organization systems via the Web.
Girts’ talk will be on Linked PIM, short for Personal Information Management. The presentation details a vision that makes all your personal information – such as an address profile, CVs, due tasks, calendars, blogs and so on - accessible to cross-portal subscribers. This can be done with a Linked PIM architecture.
A PIM provider would then need only one point of entry to publish the sharable information to all the interested parties, the so-called PIM subscribers. Again an excellent example of how semantic technologies – as abstract as they might appear up to now – already create real-life solutions nowadays.